Ezra Stiles (1727-1795)

Birdsall, Richard D. “Ezra Stiles Versus the New Divinity Men.” American Quarterly 17(Summer, 1965).

Holmes, Abiel. The Life of Ezra Stiles … President of Yale College. Boston: Thomes & Andres, 1798. Stiles had his forty volumes of notebooks sent to Holmes. Holmes’ work is based on those volumes, with some quotations not found subsequently by anyone.

Morgan, Edmund Sears. The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. This is a masterful biography by one of America’s most distinguished living historians. Morgan describes and elucidates the intellectual and religious climate in which the president of Yale (1778-1795) moved. Provides much information about and insight into Connecticut life and politics, and gives us a clear understanding of the man.